From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020922 Description of problem: installer exception occured error at the very beginning of package installation. I am trying to install the minimal installation option on a really old toshiba satellite 200cds laptop. everything goes smoothly until it looks like it is ready to start to install packages and it gives the error dialog shown below. (and the option to "save to floppy" is broken too :( so i had to copy it by hand (wah wah)) im thinking it could be a lack of memory - i have 40mb of ram and 800mb hard drive partitioned into - /boot(50mb), swap(80mb), /(the rest) i have successfully installed mandrake 7.2 on the machine without any problems but i would really like to have redhat on it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install from startup floppy which then boots cdrom 2.choose minimal installation package (actually any package config will produce the same error) 3.get to the "installing packages" step and it will give an error dialog Actual Results: i got the error dialog Expected Results: install packages and finish the installation with a wonderful fully functional router on my super old laptop. Additional info: this is the error message in the "Exception Occured" dialog: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 786, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 149, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 632, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 430, in turnOnFilesystems partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", line 1110, in doMetaDeletes lvm.vgactivate() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py", line 54, in vgactivate searchPath = 1) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 66, in execWithRedirect childpid = os.fork() OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
you do not have enough ram to install via the GUI installer. Use the text mode installer by typing "text" at the boot: prompt when you boot from your CD. We have added a check for this to automatically go to text mode in the next version.